Re: Possible accessibility issue on the How to Meet WCAG Quick Reference page.

Hi Sarah,

Sorry that it is not working as you (and we) would expect and thank you 
for letting us know.

We use a standard mechanic to add the meta information that the button 
is pressed to the button. I’m unsure why JAWS 2019 is not picking it 
up. We had tested it with earlier versions of JAWS and no one reported 
such issues.

Maybe it depends on some verbosity setting?

We’ll look into it when we update the resource again.

👋 Eric

On 22 Sep 2019, at 23:56, Sarah Presley wrote:

> Hi:
>
>
>
> I am a screen reader user who is blind, and I'm using the latest 
> version of
> JAWS 2019 with Windows 10.
>
>
>
> I recently visited:
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>
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> www.w3.org/wai/wcag20/quickref <http://www.w3.org/wai/wcag20/quickref>
>
>
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> I was trying out various filters when I realized that the filter 
> buttons did
> not give any audible indication of having been selected. For example, 
> I
> selected the "Changing Content" button. The page updated to show the 
> effect
> of the filter, and I got the message: "Selected Filters: WCAG 2.0: 
> success
> criteria tagged with changing-content and all techniques." However, I 
> could
> hear no indication that the button had been selected or pressed. I 
> tried
> various combinations with the same result, no audible indication that 
> a
> button had been selected or unselected.
>
>
>
> Then the plot thickened. I went to "Help with WAI Website" to get this
> e-mail address, and then hit alt left arrow to go back to the original 
> page.
> And lo and behold, I heard "Changing Content toggle button pressed".
> However, when I hit that button again to toggle it off, though the 
> page
> information updated, the audible indication continued to say that the 
> toggle
> button was pressed.
>
>
>
> I was initially using Chrome, but I tried the site using Internet 
> Explorer
> and got the same results.
>
>
>
> I just wanted to alert you to this issue.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all that you do.
>
>
>
> Sarah





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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)